Why?  Because AT&T revamped its privacy policy so that it clearly states your personal information no longer belongs to you and they can do with it as they please.  To wit:

AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The changes are significant because they appear to give the telecom giant more latitude when it comes to sharing customers’ personal data with government officials.

The new policy says that AT&T — not customers — owns customers’ confidential info and can use it “to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.”

The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service — something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.

Moreover, AT&T (formerly known as SBC) is requiring customers to agree to its updated privacy policy as a condition for service — a new move that legal experts say will reduce customers’ recourse for any future data sharing with government authorities or others.

Not only are they in bed with the NSA’s illegal and unconstitutional domestic spying, even going so far as to build special rooms at their major data and network centers for the government to “plug and spy”, but now they are removing the restrictions in their own policies that made such actions illegal in the first place.

It’s time to find a different carrier for my cell phone, internet, and local and long-distance phone service.  What a pain.